Quotes About Psychological Horror

#1. Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

Andrew Pyper

#2. There are two types of people: you have people that like psychological horror and you have those that like everything in their face.

Tom Six

#3. I do like sci-fi, and I do like horror - those are my favorite genres. Good horror, though, not like slasher horror ... psychological horror like 'The Shining' - really good stuff!

Mark Pellegrino

#4. To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

Dylan McDermott

#5. When asked why I write psychological horror, I always reply that this form is the most intimate way to reach a reader. Think about it.

Wayne Allen Sallee

#6. I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.

Dylan McDermott

#7. Psychological horror I've always appreciated, like 'Rosemary's Baby.' The slasher movies and the grotesque movies are the ones that I've really been off for a while.

John Carroll Lynch

#8. He clasped his hands to his ears as if he would tear his very brain out!" A sample line from Shadow my psychological/horror compared to Poe!

C.S. Dixon

#9. Of all the problems and complications in my life, I had not expected love to be one of them.

Stacie Evans

#10. I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

Sophia Bush

#11. It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn't be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.

Jess C. Scott

#12. In a world threatened by pain and death, stories of miracle workers are a psychological necessity, because the alternative is unmitigated horror and despair.

Philip Ball

#13. Bruises and dried blood covered her face, giving the illusion of chicken pox.

Yawatta Hosby

#14. I know that Wes Craven feels watching horror films does have a psychological effect, in a good way. It is very cathartic. He might be right about that.

Marley Shelton

#15. I don't know how the Wolfman knows all this, but he's not wrong. My warm cheeks turn scalding hot.
"Your shame is a good sign. You may break sooner than I thought. The breaking is good. It purifies.

Carolyn Lee Adams

#16. There are some that even beg for the Chamber," she could hear Isaar saying in the back of her mind. "Soft minded fools or broken souls that would rather live a fabricated existence than deal with reality.

Charles Hash

#17. 'Ravenswood' is horror. It's not slasher, but it's psychological and spiritual horror.

Tyler Blackburn

#18. Yeah, there has to be a few screws loose when a girl asks you to drop everything to spend a three-day weekend on very short notice, and you say okey dokey without a care in the world.

Yawatta Hosby

#19. My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as most, rather more mood-driven. My interest in the supernatural is a complication - though I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

Graham Joyce

#20. He who fears being watched from the abyss
will be unable to look into it himself.
The truth can only be obtained by pressing forward.

Sadamu Yamashita

#21. Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

Christopher Eccleston

#22. What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a 'psychological thriller.' To me, psychological thriller basically means 'a horror movie without the blood.'

Christopher Denham

#23. I would love to do something in the thriller category. Not so much horror, but I would love to do a full-on psychological thriller. That would be really interesting. A period piece would also be fantastic.

Brooke Nevin

#24. Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like 'The Exorcist', 'The Shining', even though they scare the living daylights out of me.

Emmanuelle Vaugier

#25. My original intent was to write a horror story about someone who loses his mind and slowly begins to unravel. The story, as I envisioned it, would evoke horror within the context of psychological decay, entropy.

Jupiter Cutter

#26. At its heart, Gothic Fiction is the introvert's "Hero's Journey" where heroes and heroines must navigate the uncharted territory of the mind in order to solve the mystery of their life's adventure.

Barrymore Tebbs

#27. Just one pit stop, Rae. One pit stop that won't even take an hour. Then it's over. It's finally over.

Yawatta Hosby

#28. Birds chirped and hawked in the distance. A group of them, maybe vultures, circled the sky. Rae glanced at the blanket. Those damn birds could probably smell Marissa, and the second everyone left, they'd pounce on her.

Yawatta Hosby

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Stacie Evans

#30. I knew the end would come, one day. I knew my life deserved to be over. Yet, even knowing that, I was no less fearful.

Stacie Evans

#31. My thoughts are quiet, but not calm. There is a terror on the edge of the silence, a terror fed by my burning flesh and the stench of death.

Christine Fonseca

#32. They shared a sensation that was as addictive as a needle full of heroin to a street junkie.

Paige Dearth

#33. She kept talking and she kept talking. I thought she would never stop. Standing there, I felt the sun pour through the windows, setting and rising on my back. The sunroom had become a sundial measuring the geological age of my psychological toture.

Paul Tremblay

#34. Forever. He carved the word into his soul. Kiera was his forever, deformity or no deformity.

Christine Fonseca

#35. Most horror films fail to scare me. I think 'The Ring' plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.

Martin Henderson